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‘[I]f you live in Canada, don’t argue on Twitter…’

August 1, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

 …or you might find yourself in court looking at 10 years for criminal harassment. (…)

The issue, she stated repeatedly at trial, is the number of Tweets she received. Ms. Guthrie can’t pin down any time when she specifically felt threatened. “That’s not how feelings work,” she fem-splained from the stand, further clarifying that feeling “creeped out” constituted a sense of fear.

And by “sense of fear” she means “criminal act.”

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